We live in the woods, and I am all for the wildlife roaming around the outside of the house. Once it comes inside it is DEAD! I want its mother killed! I want its brother killed! Be it spiders, flies, rats, or any other creature, I see it inside, it dies. Killed 5 spiders earlier today. I have spider webs in pretty much every corner of the house right now, and 3 weeks ago, I vacuumed all the corners, and will do so again this week.

FWIW spiders don't bother me and I am barely afraid of the poisonous Brown Recluse as long as I see them first.

We had a huge one of those in the downstairs karzi for a couple of seasons. His name was Horace and he wasn't the brightest - he kept getting stuck in the sink. However, we left a bit of string dangling in it and he was able to escape up that. People used to wonder what it was for. We really enjoyed the screams when folks were in there - Horace used to lurk behind the toilet and then scuttle out when it was quiet (or when someone was sitting quietly - like I say, not the brightest spider).

Finally he croaked, but I like to think it was old age did for him. Taking a "pony" is a lot less fraught now